Azure Policy

azurePolicy engineazure-policy

Governance engine that audits, denies or remediates resources against assigned rules.

Provider
azure
Category
Operations
Properties · 2 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
definitionVersionMode · component propertyenumlatest-major | pinned-minornolatest-majorinherited
effectenumaudit | deny | modify | deploy-if-not-existsno—inherited
encryptedAtRest · component propertyboolean—notrueinherited
enforcementModeenumenforced | disabledno—▸ enforced
evaluationCycleHours · component propertyinteger—no24inherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ true
maxAssignmentsPerScope · component propertyinteger—no200inherited
maxDefinitionsPerScope · component propertyinteger—no500inherited
policyCountinteger—no—inherited
remediationboolean—nofalseinherited
scopeenumresource | group | account | organizationno—inherited
Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.
Use it in a design
nodes:
  - { id: "policy", component: "azure-policy" }
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and 16 more → Policy engine page
Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Azure Policy: evaluates resources against business rules and applies an effect at a management
# group, subscription, resource group or resource scope. "Overview of Azure Policy": the standard
# compliance evaluation cycle occurs once every 24 hours, all Azure Policy data and objects are
# encrypted at rest, and a scope holds at most 500 policy definitions and 200 assignments. "Details
# of the policy assignment structure": when enforcementMode is not specified, Default is used.
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "azure-policy"
kind: "policy-engine"
provider: "azure"
docs: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/overview"
defaults:
  managed: true
  enforcementMode: "enforced"
properties:
  evaluationCycleHours:
    type: "integer"
    default: 24
  definitionVersionMode:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["latest-major", "pinned-minor"]
    default: "latest-major"
  encryptedAtRest:
    type: "boolean"
    default: true
  maxDefinitionsPerScope:
    type: "integer"
    default: 500
  maxAssignmentsPerScope:
    type: "integer"
    default: 200

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/azure-policy.md